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Hmmm: Mitt Romney Is Being Courted To Consider Running As An Independent
townhall.com ^ | Saturday May 7, 2016 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 05/08/2016 5:13:32 AM PDT by rktman

Some 2016 intrigue coming from The Washington Post’s Robert Costa, who reported on a meeting Mitt Romney had with the Weekly Standard’s William Kristol last Thursday on the possibility of running as a third party candidate. Kristol is part of a large swath of conservatives within the Republican Party, who are highly skeptical of presumptive nominee Donald Trump on a whole host of issues—the most obvious being that the billionaire magnate isn’t even a conservative Republican:

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To: rktman

He’d better stay out of it or Hillary will be in.


41 posted on 05/08/2016 6:10:01 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: nhwingut

I suppose they’re laughing at the rubes who were getting ready to “enrich” their lame asses.


42 posted on 05/08/2016 6:10:59 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

How can it hurt him. He has already disgraced himself and destroyed what legacy he had. Perhaps he can bring his father into this mess somehow. Or, his crooked sons in training. I welcome his treachery. He fills in one more piece in the puzzle which will destroy the GOPe for all time.


43 posted on 05/08/2016 6:11:42 AM PDT by anton
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To: rktman

Yeah...the guy who CHOKED LIKE A DOG, in the last election, is going to make an independent run.

NO ONE LIKES YOU, MITTENS.

Go back to your gas pump.


44 posted on 05/08/2016 6:12:02 AM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: b4its2late

Ross pirogue light. 3rd part will be a shoe in for the demon-crats.


45 posted on 05/08/2016 6:12:40 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Do it! We can all watch him go down in flames!


46 posted on 05/08/2016 6:19:19 AM PDT by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: rktman

HAHAHAHA

So Kristol thinks Romney is a conservative?

ALL CREDIBILITY GONE !


47 posted on 05/08/2016 6:22:15 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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To: rktman

Shows how much “they” have to lose if we close the border, doesn’t it.


48 posted on 05/08/2016 6:23:26 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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To: rktman
the most obvious being that the billionaire magnate isn’t even a conservative Republican

Since when is Bill Kristol been a conservative. He is a neo con establishment hack that rarely if ever shows any conservatism. He has never gone after Obama with half the intensity he does when he goes after Trump. If this is a conservative, I need to find a new label for myself.

49 posted on 05/08/2016 6:23:33 AM PDT by stratboy
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To: Baldwin77
Father like son

Barry Goldwater got the long knife in his back

But it ended the careers of Nelson Romney, William Scranton and George Romney .

The backers of a losing cause Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan who campaigned all over the country in vain for Goldwater

Were rewarded with Two Terms elected as President by the GOP.

50 posted on 05/08/2016 6:28:14 AM PDT by scooby321 (o even lower)
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To: scooby321

Notice the same playbook being used against Trump they used against Goldwater and tried to use against Reagan...”unsteady, volitile, dumb, reactionary, no foreign knowledge, discriminatory et al.


51 posted on 05/08/2016 6:36:47 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: rktman

Had he worked as hard to win election for himself as he has to destroy the party we would never ended up with an unqualified community organizer in the oval office.


52 posted on 05/08/2016 6:43:59 AM PDT by BTCM (Death and destruction is the only treaty Muslims comprehend.)
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To: Jim Noble
Kristol is part of a large swath of conservatives within the Republican Party

Needs a copy editor.

How about, 'Kristol is part of a large swath of Jewish NeoCons within the Republican Party'

53 posted on 05/08/2016 6:50:43 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Mouton

Yep, chip off the ole block.

Even just winning Utah causes a problem for Trump.

The bigger danger in him running would be his continued prosecution of Trump from the right on a national stage.

They plan on obfuscating that this is not simply a means to ensure Hillary defeats Trump by claiming the goal is to force the election to the house.

A third party nobody is much less a threat than the Bishop.


54 posted on 05/08/2016 7:00:00 AM PDT by phoneman08 (Reagan conservative union member. Not as rare as you think!)
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To: HotKat
What’s the difference between yuge and large?

Several orders of magnitude.

Even bigger is Yuge

55 posted on 05/08/2016 7:08:52 AM PDT by spokeshave (Somewhere there is a ceiling for Trump.....Yeah, it's called The Oval Office)
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To: rktman
Romney, Jeb, and Graham lost... what part of 'rejected by voters' don't they get?

How much money these folks get from the 'CHEAP LABOR EXPRESS'... is that a factor?

56 posted on 05/08/2016 7:14:20 AM PDT by GOPJ (Imagine the shrieking MSM outrage if Trump supporters had tried to flip a car... David French)
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To: rktman

Good, this will be a place for those Conservative purists to go. They shouldn’t have to vote with their inferiors.

Pray America wakes


57 posted on 05/08/2016 7:20:17 AM PDT by bray (Trump/Palin 2016)
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To: rktman

58 posted on 05/08/2016 7:49:56 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: rktman

Milt Romley is too much of a gentleman to attack Democrats.


59 posted on 05/08/2016 7:56:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." --Samuel Clemens)
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To: SkyDancer

I think that’s what’s already happening.


60 posted on 05/08/2016 8:00:28 AM PDT by Brilliant
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